Faculty

Full-time Faculty
Construction
Thomas Froese
Group Leader
tfroese@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2027
Alan D. Russell adr@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.4753
Sheryl Staub-French sherylsf@civil.ubc.ca 604.827.5118
Environmental
James W. Atwater jatwater@unixg.ubc.ca 604.822.4694
Pierre Bérubé berube@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.5665
Sietan Chieng chieng@interchange.ubc.ca 604.822.4426
Eric R. Hall
Group Leader
ehall@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2707
Loretta Li
Graduate Student Awards Advisor
(NSERC & affiliated awards)
lli@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.1820
Victor K. Lo kvlo@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.4880
Donald S. Mavinic
Associate Head (Research and
Faculty Relations)

dsm@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.4752
Geotechnical
R. Jonathan Fannin
Associate Head (Graduate Programs)
Graduate Student Awards Advisor
(4YF & GSI merit awards)
fannin@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.3557
John A. Howie
Associate Head (Undergraduate Students)
Undergraduate Student Awards Advisor
jahowie@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2877
Mahdi Taiebat mtaiebat@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.3279
Dharma Wijewickreme
Group Leader
dharmaw@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.5112
Hydrotechnical
Michael Isaacson isaacson@apsc.ubc.ca 604.822.4338
Bernard Laval
Second Year Undergraduate Advisor
blaval@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2204
Gregory A. Lawrence
Group Leader
lawrence@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.5371
Barbara J. Lence lence@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.1365
Robert G. Millar millar@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2775
Materials
Nemkumar Banthia
Group Leader
banthia@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.9541
Structures & Earthquake
Perry Adebar
Fourth Year Undergraduate Advisor
adebar@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.6820
Ken Elwood
Group Leader
elwood@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.0581
Terje Haukaas terje@civil.ubc.ca 604.827.5557
Helmut G. L. Prion    
Siegfried F. Stiemer sigi@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.6301
Thomas Tannert thomas.tannert@ubc.ca 604.822.1334
Reza Vaziri
Department Head
reza@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2800
Carlos E. Ventura ventura@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.6946
Tony Yang yang@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.3864
Transportation
Tarek A. Sayed
Group Leader and,
Graduate Advisor (Admissions)
tsayed@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.4379
Jinhua Zhao jinhua@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2196
Department Instructors
Greg Johnson gjohnson@sala.ubc.ca 604.827.3357
Susan Nesbit nesbit@interchange.ubc.ca 604.822.8703
Noboru Yonemitsu noboru@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.9642

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Emeritus Professors
Don Anderson dla@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.3556
Peter Byrne pmb@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2516
Richard Campanella rgcampanella@gmail.com 604.228.9583
Sheldon Cherry cherry@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2602
Liam Finn finn@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.0929
Ricardo Foschi rowfa1@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.2560
Kenneth Hall kjhall@civil.ubc.ca  
Sidney Mindess smindess@civil.ubc.ca 604.822.4471
Frank Navin fnavin@synectics.ca 604.822.2637
Michael Quick mcquick@telus.net 604.224.8895
Robert Sexsmith bobsexsmith@shaw.ca  
Yogi Vaid yogivaid@shaw.ca 604.822.6764

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Adjunct Professors
Kenneth Ashley
Dave Forgie
David Halliday
Cristina Jacob
Jacqueline Jenkins
Erol Karacabeyli
Harlan Kelly
Steven Kuan
Patrick McGrath
Aftab Mufti
Barry Rabinowitz
Brian Samuels
Bryan Shapiro
Ziad Shawwash
Michael Shiffer
Dean Shiskowski
Alex Sy
Dana Vanier
Troy Vassos
Peter Ward
Andrew Wood
Roger Woodhead

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Sessional Lecturers
Armin Bembazadeh
Alireza Forghani
Rishi Gupta
Sepideh Jankhah
Mike Lyons
Ron MacKinnon
Aftab Mufti
Michael Roman
Brian Samuels
Bryan Shapiro

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